Mail to fortune (Re: Why is fortune writing to the fortunes.dat file?)

[Paul V O'Neill]

This reminds my of my longest, unanswered UN*X question.

Around day 1 of my exposure to UN*X I chanced upon the fortune(6) usage
blurb.  It ended with the sentence:
	Mail suggested fortunes to "fortune"
(Replicate with "/usr/games/fortune -" in SunOS 3.4, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.0.1)

I've learned a lot since then, and manage a few systems now, but I never
have figured out how to mail a fortune to fortune(6). (Only tried the
obvious--aliasing "fortune" to "|/usr/games/fortune" -- didn't work.)

Anybody got a clue?


Paul O'Neill                 pvo at oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251